💬 Quoted… “What we’re saying is what is happening on our streets needs to stop.”

• This month, Oregon politicians on both sides of the aisle announced plans to roll back the state’s first-in-the-nation decriminalization policy for all drugs, which was approved via ballot measure in late 2020. Lawmakers say the move is aimed at reversing a notable increase in overdose deaths, homelessness, and shoplifting across Oregon over the past three years. The new policy proposed by state Democrats would make possession of small amounts of certain illicit drugs – including fentanyl, heroin, and meth – a low-level misdemeanor, while Republican state lawmakers are seeking to make possession of such drugs a high-level misdemeanor.

🙅💰 Stat of the Day: Yesterday, a Delaware judge struck down Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s record $56 billion pay package, ruling that its approval process was “deeply flawed” due to Musk’s “extensive ties with the persons tasked with negotiating on Tesla’s behalf.” The ruling also puts the spotlight on Tesla's next round of compensation negotiations with Musk, who recently said he’s uncomfortable leading the EV-maker into the future unless his voting control is upped to ~25% (currently ~13%). Another Musk-pay fun fact: a senior director at Equilar, an executive pay research firm, estimated in 2022 that Musk's overall compensation package was ~6x larger than the combined pay of the 200 highest-paid executives in the prior year.

🤔 Did You Know?... The word “dreamt” and its variations (e.g., daydreamt) are the only words in the English language that end in the letters “mt.”

📰 Worth a Read: The legend of "Bum" Farto, a Florida fire-chief-turned-drug-dealer who vanished → (Mental Floss)